Victorian Current Acts

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 - SECT 38AA

    (1)     In an Act or subordinate instrument, a reference consisting of the words "Australian Standard" or the letters "AS" followed in either case by a number or a number accompanied by a reference to a calendar year is a reference to the standard so numbered published by or on behalf of Standards Australia.

S. 38AA(1A) inserted by No. 13/2006 s. 11.

    (1A)     In an Act or subordinate instrument, a reference consisting of the expression "Australian/New Zealand Standard" or "AS/NZS" followed in either case by a number or a number accompanied by a reference to a calendar year is a reference to the standard so numbered published jointly by or on behalf of Standards Australia and the Standards Council of New Zealand.

    (2)     In an Act or subordinate instrument, a reference to Standards Australia includes a reference to the Standards Association of Australia as constituted before 1 July 1999.

    (3)     In an Act or subordinate instrument, a reference to the Standards Association of Australia, so far as it relates to any period on or after 1 July 1999, is a reference to Standards Australia.

S. 38A
inserted by No. 80/1990 s. 98(1), amended by No. 37/1999 s. 58(Sch. 1 item 2.2), substituted by No. 44/2001 s. 3(Sch. item 67).